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9781984801340. Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History is a nonfiction book by Kurt Andersen, published in August 2020. It entered The New York Times Best Seller list for nonfiction at number 7, [ 1] The Washington Post list at number 9, [ 2] and the Los Angeles Times list at number 5. [ 3] In January 2021, Evil Geniuses was ...
Independent Party of Louisiana – 136,125. Conservative Party of Louisiana – 794. Socialist – 85. American Solidarity – 103. Socialism and Liberation – 5. ^ "Other" political affiliations listed as follows: Libertarian Association (unaffiliated) – 16,307. United Independent Party – 14,469. Socialist Party – 1,615.
1951. Political philosopher Francis Wilson in The Case for Conservatism (1951) defines conservatism as "a philosophy of social evolution, in which certain lasting values are defended within the framework of the tension of political conflict. And when given values are at stake the conservative can even become a revolutionary."
v. t. e. De la démocratie en Amérique ( French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 [1] and the second in 1840) [2] is a classic French work by Alexis de Tocqueville. Its title can be translated literally as Of Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic ...
The New Press. Publication date. 2016. Awards. National Book Award Finalist. ISBN. 978-1-62097-225-0 (Hardcover) Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right is a 2016 book by sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. The book sets out to explain the worldview of supporters of the Tea Party movement in Louisiana.
American electoral politics have been dominated by successive pairs of major political parties since shortly after the founding of the republic of the United States. Since the 1850s, the two largest political parties have been the Democratic Party and the Republican Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress ...
The Paranoid Style in American Politics. First book edition published by Alfred A. Knopf. " The Paranoid Style in American Politics " is an essay by American historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964. It was the title essay in a book by the author the following year. Published soon after Arizona senator ...
John C. Calhoun and "positive good" slavery. [edit] The best-known political figure to defend black slavery as a "positive good", was John C. Calhoun, a political theorist and the seventh Vice President of the United States. Calhoun was a leader of the Democratic-Republican Partyin the early nineteenth century[19]who, in the Second Party System ...